Swan Lockhart was fatally shot in the West Englewood neighborhood Sunday night.
Police responding to a call of a person shot in the 2000 block of West 69th Place found 26-year-old Swan Lockhart shot in the hip about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.
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BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago Editor
Four men were shot to death throughout Chicago last week.
Two of the men were killed over the weekend, when at least eight other people were wounded by gunfire.
The most recent killing happened when office found 26-year-old Swan Lockhart shot in the 2000 block of West 69th Place in the West Englewood neighborhood about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, police said.
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Demarcus Adams was fatally shot in the Uptown neighborhood Saturday night.
Adams, 28, was standing outside in the 4600 block of North Malden Street when a gunman walked up and shot him in the back and leg about 5:05 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.
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Malcolm Tompkins was fatally shot in the Englewood neighborhood Friday afternoon.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 5600 block of South Green Street found Tompkins unresponsive about 5:45 p.m. Friday, authorities said.
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Timothy Jones / Photo from Chicago Police
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
A South Side man was convicted Saturday of the murder of a woman who was killed when a Chicago Police car slammed into her during a high-speed chase the man initiated following a residential burglary.
Although Cook County jurors found Timothy Jones guilty of Jacqueline Reynolds’ murder based on a May 8, 2013 residential burglary, they acquitted him on home invasion and armed robbery charges.
The jurors, who were sequestered after failing to reach a verdict Friday night, returned the verdicts after roughly two hours of deliberation.
During Jones’ three-day trial, defense attorney Keith Spence argued that the officers pursuing his client were responsible for Reynolds’ death because they neglected to follow department policy and procedures by driving recklessly.
Reynolds’ death was tragic, Spence said in his closing arguments, but “it wasn’t Tim’s fault.”
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Julio Ramos was killed in a drive-by shooting in the Bucktown neighborhood late Thursday.
Ramos was sitting in an SUV parked in the 2000 block of West Fullerton Avenue when a gray pickup truck pulled up and somebody inside opened fired about 11:40 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.
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Deshawn Johnson / Photo from Chicago Police
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
A murder suspect who allegedly killed a Chinese restaurant employee because he only got $20 from a hold-up after demanding fried rice escaped from custody and sprinted from a courtroom Friday before he was tackled to the ground by a Cook County prosecutor.
“Get him! Get him” Judge Peggy Chiampas screamed as 26-year-old Deshawn Johnson ran past lawyers and spectators and through the door of Courtroom 101 at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
Assistant State’s Attorney Barry Quinn, who quickly tailed Johnson, pulling off the suspect’s coat, was able to the tackle Logan Square man just feet outside the courtroom.
“I started feeling all these bodies on top of me,” a gray pin-striped suit wearing Quinn later said of the half dozen sheriff’s deputies who joined the frenzied tackle.
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Janice Coleman / Submitted photo
BY CHANTELLE NAVARRO
Homicide Watch Chicago
Janice Coleman cared for more than her nine children and 24 grandchildren — she also frequently helped relatives and neighbors, family said.
“If she wasn’t taking care of the kids, she was taking care of the elderly in our family,” said Coleman’s niece, Dornise Pewett.
Coleman, 48, was stabbed to death during a Feb. 8 gathering inside a home in the 11300 block of South Parnell Avenue in the Roseland community, authorities said.
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BY EMILY GRAY BROSIOUS
Homicide Watch Chicago
Alexander Villafane named his youth football program after his second-favorite NFL team, the New England Patriots, family said.
The 39-year-old football coach did not get to see the Patriots win Super Bowl XLIX this month because he was fatally shot in the head while working on a vehicle less than a week before the game, family said.
Villafane was replacing a stolen catalytic converter when he was wounded during a Jan. 25 drive-by shooting in the 3500 block of West 24th Street, family said.
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Lynell Bradley Jr. was killed in a West Englewood shooting that also left another man injured early Sunday.
The men were in a van stopped at a red light in the 1400 block of West 71st Street when a tan SUV pulled up and somebody inside opened fire about 3:20 a.m. Sunday, police said.
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